Find out the difference between an infographic and a data visualization. Discover when should you use each, and how they work together!

1. VS VISUALIZATIONS
INFOGRAPHICS
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2. What make something an infographic?

3. Are they really different than visualizations?

4. Infographics are laid out by hand

5. Visualizations are machine created

6. (though they can be touched up afterwards)

7. Info
Infographics are
visually rich

8. Visualizations
are simple
and to the point

9. A completed
infographic
can be hard
to modify

10. Visualizations
can update
on a consistent
schedule

11. The relationship between them
is recursive, with visualizations
often being embedded in infographics

12. But clarity about the differences and similarities is
critical to the overall goal of communicating your data

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